Hearing it's a souls like killed most of my hype for the game honestly. Not my thing at all.
It's not 'souls-like'... please stop putting games in these tiny boxes!
It's a mix of Souls, Nier, and Bayonetta, but it's clearly neither of those specifically at the same time. Stellar Blade is not overly original but also not a direct copy-paste formula from another game. Not to mention this game has a lower difficulty option alongside multiple accessibility ones.
Do remember that people also called GOW (2018) souls-like, I mean just the camera being from behind, and the game requiring some dodging and blocking is all you need to be labeled as souls-like nowadays.
This is getting absurd.